Suggestion to generate particles and then user should be able to hit “generate instances from particles” or similar to generate the named/axis set instances,
At least to my understanding, they are not connected for now and if you “Add instances” then you are met with linear/pablo/lucas alternatives again.
Agreed! Maybe those generated instances could even use particles as automatic/dynamic references for their values/names, with an option do unlink them one by one. That way one could bulk-control the values from the particles settings, and have control over individual instances (for things like custom parameters).
It would also be good to add weight/width classes, and bold/italic/elidable flags to particles